Can We Become Happier? The If and How of Attaining Happiness
All humans strive to be happy in some form. This might lead to the expectation that we should generally be happy, at least when circumstances afford it. Yet, this is not the case. Thus there is a paradox: The pursuit of happiness is one of the prime values people hold, but they often fall short of attaining it. In this talk, Professor Maus will present psychological research that examines why this paradox exists and how we can sidestep it.
Speaker:
Dr. Iris Mauss is a professor of psychology and director of the Institute for Social and Personality Research (IPSR) at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research examines emotions and emotion regulation, with an emphasis on their links with health and well-being, and has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. For her teaching and research, she has received multiple awards, including the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Diener award.